OAF News

2018 K.M. Hunter Artist Awards Winners Announced

Toronto,
April 16, 2018 - The winners of the 2018 K.M. Hunter Artist Awards were announced
today.The six winners will be honoured
by the K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation at an event at
the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto in June.

A
prize of $8,000was awarded in each
of six arts disciplines to:

Dance

Christine Friday, Ottawa

Theatre

Matthew Heiti, Sudbury

Literature

Shane Book, Ottawa

Media Arts

Luo Li, Toronto

Music

Allison Cameron, Toronto

Visual Arts

Cree Stevens, Thunder Bay

The
annual awards are given to Ontario residents to support mid-career,
professional artists who have a reasonable body of work, a fair degree of
public exposure, have made an impact in their chosen field and demonstrate an
original artistic voice within their artistic tradition.The awards are a means of encouraging their
craft and propelling them to the next level.

“We are very impressed at the caliber of artists our awards attract and
wish all the winners this year great success in the pursuit of their work,”
says Sarah Hunter, President, K.M. Hunter Charitable
Foundation.“We also would like to
thank Dave Carley, Damiano Pietropaolo, and Bernard Lerouxin helping chair our
juries this year.We welcome this year’s
winners into the growing family of artists who have received the K.M. Hunter
Artist Awards.”

Since the awards were created in 1995, 139 artists have received awards
totaling $940,500.

The K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation is committed to supporting organizations in Social Services, the Arts, the LGBTQ community, homeless and disadvantaged youth, Aboriginal voices, Women, and Environmental Issues.

For more than 50 years, the Ontario Arts Council has played a vital role in promoting and assisting the development of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of Ontarians. In 2016-2017, OAC funded 1,657 individual artists and 1,098 organizations in 212 Ontario communities, for a total of $50.8 million.

Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) is passionately committed to building long-term support for the arts in Ontario. In 2016-2017, the OAF paid over $3.2 million in endowment income and $375,000 in awards and scholarships."